“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

All great achievements require time.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Hey you, don’t let your thoughts swallow you.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.